Eurobot 2022/2023

Last week we embarked on a trip to the Eurobot finals in France. We were delighted about our performance in Dresden and we were very much looking forward to the event. Our main goal was to gain some experience and learn from more professional teams without setting any expectations in … Weiterlesen …

On April 22.04.2023 and 23.04.2023 we went together with the Big Robot to the competition in Dresden. Enjoying our trip, there were some struggles at the beginning of the competition. First Day (22.04.2023), we started at 9:00 a clock in the morning and worked till round about 1:00 p.m. nighttime. … Weiterlesen …

In the last weeks we made a ton of progress: Vacuum system We found out, that our vacuum-system doesn´t work. We didn’t have enough thrust to suck enough air in, so we can´t put the balls into the bot. The problem was on our engine, which had too few resistance … Weiterlesen …

We made good progress in the last weeks, for example: (author: Lucian)

This Week we installed the suction system on to our bot: We also tested the resistance of our suction system: After some experimenting we got our results which were good: (author: Lucian)

This week we built and tested our first prototype: It worked and our bot drove for the first time! Hooray! (author: Lucian)

This week we wrote an algorithm for our ultrasonic sensors to remove some noise from the sensor. This is important because the sensors aren’t always quite accurate, so we must filter the values. In the algorithm, we have a variable “a” to adjust the graph. If we make “a” smaller … Weiterlesen …

In the past weeks we got our bottom plate. we can start building the first prototype of our bot: Additionally we completed the full aluminum case which we are going to install the hardware in: (author: Lucian)

In the last week we finally managed to finish our model of the base plate so it’s now ready to be milled. We also updated our 3d model so it now fits our needs. We also got our motor holders printed, and some important parts we need to start building … Weiterlesen …